The Ian Fletcher Memorial Lecture Series

MARY POOVEY

"Risk, Uncertainty, and Data: Managing Risk in Early Twentieth-Century America"

The Fletcher Lecture 2011-2012 will be held April 12, 2012 at the University Club (UCLUB) ASU, 6:00 p.m.

The 2011-2012 Ian Fletcher Memorial Lecture features Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at New York University. Her primary scholarly work focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, history, and culture, although she has also published on eighteenth-century British literature and culture, the history of literary criticism, feminist theory, and economic history. Her two most recent books, A History of the Modern Fact and Genres of the Credit Economy, examine the emergence of the modern disciplines. In them, she argues that literary study acquired the rudiments of its modern form through a process of generic differentiation that distinguished between modes of writing about value. Her current work focuses on financial crises, both past and present.

The lecture is free of charge and open to the public. Refreshments will follow.

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For more information about Dr. Poovey, please visit her webpage at New York University.

Sponsored by the ASU Department of English. For more information, please contact: Dan Bivona, 602-903-3825.